The environment in Brazilian culture : literature, cinema, and the arts / edited by Patricia Vieira.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vieira, Patricia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazilian literature--History and criticism.

Brazilian literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Motion pictures--Brazil--History.

Motion pictures.

Ecology in motion pictures.

Human ecology in motion pictures.

Art--Brazil--History.

Art.

Ecology in art.

Human ecology in art.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Film criticism.

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This volume explores the centrality of the natural world in shaping Brazilian literature, cinema, and art from 1900 to the present, portraying the human connection to nature in the most biodiverse country in the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Environment in Brazil's Cultures / Patricia Vieira

Part I: Plants and Animals in Brazilian Literature

Zooliterary Exercises: Animals, Animality, and the Frontiers of the Human in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Literature / Maria Esther Maciel

Latent Agency and Vegetal Subjectivity in Babel Babil"nia and Sozinho no Deserto Extremo / Benjamin Burt

Necroterritories: Politics of Life and Death at the Brazilian Slaughterhouse / Valeria Meiller

Part II: Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

Cosmopolitics and the Translation of Indigenous Verbal Arts in Contemporary Brazil / Malcolm K. McNee

Suspending the Fall: Davi Kopenawa, Ailton Krenak, and Interspecies Kinship / Martiniano Alcantara Neto

Indigenous Documentaries: Art, Self-Representation, and the Environment in Huni Ku? Films / Juliana Luna Freire

Part III: The Aesthetics of a Natural World under Threat

A Land with History: The Amazonian Frontier in Alberto Rangel's Texts / Cinthya Torres

Flesh of the Earth: Bio Art, Eco Art, and the Aesthetics of Extinction / Jens Andermann

Rainforest Cinema: A Post-Anthropocentric Amazon Sublime / Patricia Vieira

Part IV: Social and Environmental Justice

Environmental Apocalypse in the Retirantes Series of Candido Portinari / Rex P. Nielson

Landscapes of Dispute: Decolonial Discourse and the Representation of Nature in Torto Arado / Leila Lehnen

Reimagining Hydropower: Ecofeminist and Transnational Perspectives on Belo Monte / Victoria Saramago

Breathing Spaces in Marília Flo"r Kesby's Mugido and Diego Moraes's Poetry and Fiction / Nuno Marques

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Environment in Brazilian culture

ISBN:

9781683405030

168340503X

OCLC:

1463663943